. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ers of the globe; there wereextraordinary pageants, three or four stories high,representing to the admiration and delight of thosecivilized savages, all the horrors and miseries of war,beautiful countries laid waste; armies slain, routed,led captive; cities breached by military engines,stormed, laid waste with fire and sword; women wail-ing ; houses overthrown ; temples burning; and riversof fire flowing through regions no longer cu
. Paganism, popery, and Christianity : or, The blessing of an open Bible, as shown in the history of Christianity, from the time of our Saviour to the present day. ers of the globe; there wereextraordinary pageants, three or four stories high,representing to the admiration and delight of thosecivilized savages, all the horrors and miseries of war,beautiful countries laid waste; armies slain, routed,led captive; cities breached by military engines,stormed, laid waste with fire and sword; women wail-ing ; houses overthrown ; temples burning; and riversof fire flowing through regions no longer cultivatedor peopled, but blazing far away into the long anddreary distance. Among the spoils, the goldentable, the seven-branched candlestick, and the bookof the law from the Temple of Jerusalem, wereconspicuous. The triumph passed on to the Capitol, and therepaused to hear that the glory of Rome was completedby the insulting and cruel execution of the bravestgeneral of the enemy. This distinction fell to thelot of Simon, the son of Gioras. He was draggedalong to a place near the Forum, with a halterround his neck, scourged as he went, and there putto
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